Crist unrolls ed budget

Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday unveiled his proposed budget for education only, which includes big bumps to education funding.  He's talking about spending $394 more per students in K-12 and a billion more overall in pre-K-12 education. Check out his handout.

Crist acknowledged that part of the reason he was talking about his education proposal now was to assuage fears that the property tax constitutional amendment would cut from public schools.

Crist wouldn't say where cuts would come from to fund the education bump, and his budget director suggested that info would come in February, after the primary. He did say his budget would be using nonrecurring funds for recurring expenditures.

 

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Raising education budgets at the same time as slashing revenue and endorsing Giuliani in the same afternoon. Cristi is a busy man: two photo ops in one day.

Question: How much of this increased funding is part of the "local required effort"?

In other words, how much will local school boards have to raise taxes to fund this?

Asked yet another way, how much of this is funded by dumping the cost on local school boards, which will then get vilified by legislators for increasing taxes?

Anyone remember this?

School leaders criticize budget

Gainesville Sun - June 17, 2001
By KAREN VOYLES
Sun staff writer

Even though Florida legislators increased education spending by millions this year, superintendents from some rural districts in North Central Florida are convinced that education was not a top priority in Tallahassee this year. They reached their conclusion after reading and hearing from Education Commissioner Charlie Crist.

Among Crist's comments was his claim that if the United States can send people to the moon, they should be able to pay Florida's public school teachers an average of $100,000 by the end of the decade. ...

The fact is this proposal from our governor is likely to end up in the same place as his plan to pay teachers $100,000 a year. It will make headlines, get him through the primary and then the Legislature will reject it.

Why? Because he's not showing the whole picture to the media. The state is facing deep cuts. $3 billion if I remember correctly.

Education funding makes up about half the general revenue spending of the state. To increase that half of the budget by $1 billion while having to cut $3 billion in recurring money out of the other half (while protecting public safety) is going to be a neat trick.

The only other place to go is health care funding. Are we ready for a replay of the medically needy fights of the Jeb years?

Bottom line: The governor needs to show the entire budget and outline the cuts he proposes to fund the laudable effort to increase spending by $1 billion on education.

I just hope he's not relying on the gambling agreement to make it so because, that's a lottery-style pipe dream.

NONONO… you missed the best part…, which tells you all you need to know about what a genius Chuck is at managing budgets…

“He did say his budget would be using nonrecurring funds for recurring expenditures.”

He’s a chip of the ol’ Martinez/Bush block! You see, if you turn the pyramid upside down… shooting for a goal of being ranked 50th is a good thing!

And who was it that said that “No tax dollars would be used to promote Amendment 1”?

[Raise Property Tax Republicans]

Looks like the runs show about a 350 million dollar property tax increase.

12:29 - Thanks - Great Job!

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what CC's saying is he's going to raid every trust fund in Tallahassee in order to pay school budgets.
such would be good if that was truly possible.
even if he raided every trust fund in state government he still would only have a fraction of what he needed.
bottom line is.....it can't be done and Chuck is just giving the masses of chuckeheads (Florida voters and taxpayers who actually believe him) more communist propaganda.
And $100K a year.....yeah, when pigs fly!

Ladies and gentlemen,

We've elected a retard our Governor.

Everytime I unroll a budget like that, part of it winds up in the crapper.

Another nugget I just saw from the story on Education Commissioner Charlie Crist's $100K salaries for teachers proposal from 2001 referenced by 12:29. (Thank you Google)

Read this and put into the back of your mind's the argument about local government spending you're hearing from supporters of Yes on 1.

This is a little glimpse into our governor's spinning for headlines and budgeting style:

... According to Crist, the $100,000 goal is realistic, but if district's don't try, they won't reach that salary level.

"The CPI (Consumer Price Index) for last 30 years is 5.5. to 5.7 percent per year," Crist said.

"So use the same equation for the next 10 years and the number you arrive at is just over $101,000. We will reach that level just based on the growth we have enjoyed in Florida. Remember that in 1985, the state's budget was $15 billion and today it is $50 billion." ...

http://www.ncfcc.org/businessjournal/topnews/06-17-01_gnvsun_01.html

This sounds like another form of voodoo economics. Shame on the Gov.

Crist wouldn't say where cuts would come from to fund the education bump, and his budget director suggested that info would come in February, after the primary.
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Are we about to get the royal.....

It's time everyone live within their means including schools.

I have no problem cutting school budgets too. They need to do more with less like everyone else.